[CUBE] [OT] booting from external hard drive.

[mentholiptus]

On Oct 29, 2003, at 9:06 AM, A Marshall wrote:

> hi
>
> i'm doing a live event in a weeks time and instead of taking my cube & 
> screen along, a friend said he would lend me his iBook (500).  As he 
> is running OS9 on his machine, and to save transfering all the files i 
> need onto his computer, i thought i would take my drive out the cube, 
> pop it into a firewire enclosure and boot up off it using the iBook, 
> will this work ok? and if so, is there a keyboard shortcut to use (i 
> seem to remember something about holding down the F key)
>
> thanks for any help


Yeah, it should work fine. Try it first to make sure everything works 
ok...but for the most part, I don't see any problems. I used to carry 
an external drive around with me everywhere so any mac I sat in front 
of was always my system :)

If you hold the OPTION key at startup, it will display all the bootable 
drives as buttons. Click the one you want to start from, and your 
golden. As long as the drive has power (or in some cases...is powered 
by the firewire cable), you can then choose it as the startup disk, and 
when you start the system up it should look at the external disk to 
boot.

Hope this works for you!


jesse




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